Sunday, May 4, 2008

Interesting technology article

Here is an interesting technology article:



'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the text books?

By R. Colin Johnson
EE Times

(04/30/08, 01:00:00 PM EDT)
PORTLAND, Ore. — The long-sought after memristor--the "missing link" in electronic circuit theory--has been invented by Hewlett Packard Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs (Palo Alto, Calif.) Memristors--the fourth passive component type after resistors, capacitors and inductors--were postulated in a seminal 1971 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory by professor Leon Chua at the University of California (Berkeley), but their first realization was just announced today by HP. According to Williams and Chua, now virtually every electronics textbook will have to be revised to include the memristor and the new paradigm it represents for electronic circuit theory.


Admittedly, this kind of stuff is interesting for the nerdy guys like me.


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